Re: Sweeter Emacs Lisp

[Andreas Schwab]

Juanma Barranquero <address@hidden> writes:

> The past two weeks, while hacking desktop.el, often I would've loved
> to require 'cl-lib to use sequence functions. I didn't, because
> desktop.el, though not pre-loaded, it is so commonly used that loading
> cl-lib from it would be almost like forcing cl-lib into everybody's
> Emacs.

There is nothing wrong with using the macros from cl-lib.

> OTOH, cl-lib is currently unconditionally required by 15 files (plus
> emacs-lisp/cl*.el):

Only when compiling.

Andreas.

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